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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
Cormac McCarthy
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Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
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If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
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What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.
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For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.
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When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
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You are either born a writer or you are not.
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Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
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The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.
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All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
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I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
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